Earth-Science/Environment

This book seeks to illuminate the organizational and social dimensions of Global Information Systems. It provides a broad and historical perspectiv...

Providing both a theoretical background and practical examples of natural resource conflict, this volume explores the pressures on natural resource...

Over the years, the interactions between land, ocean, biosphere and atmosphere have increased, mainly due to population growth and anthropogenic ac...

This book is an exciting reappraisal of the role and practice of biodiversity monitoring, showing how new technologies and software applications ar...

The Times (Obituaries, 4 August 2008) reported that “John Thornes was one of the most eminent and influential physical geographers of his generatio...

The new edition presents the themes of geopolitical structures and agents in an engaging and accessible manner, with no previous knowledge of theor...

Introducing Human Geographies is a ‘travel guide’ into the academic subject of human geography and the things that it studies. The coverage of the ...

At a time when people use more and more geographic information and tools, the management of geographical information in software systems still hold...

Environmental stories have all the elements that make for a good drama-villains that plunge us into danger, and heroes that fight for positive chan...

Indoor Air Quality: The Latest Sampling and Analytical Methods, Third Edition is a practical, user-friendly guide to the identification and assessm...

The field of human rights and the environment has grown phenomenally during the last few years and this textbook will be one of the first to encour...

The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and development, and the way governments, business and environmental...

Governing Climate Change, Second Edition, provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diverse...

Today’s global energy system faces two major challenges: how to secure the supply of reliable and affordable energy; and how to rapidly transform t...

Earth’s climate is changing. This book investigates the scientific, environmental, social, political, and economic aspects of climate change. It en...

Geopolitics and Development examines the historical emergence of development as a form of governmentality, from the end of empire to the Cold War a...

Geographies of Media and Communication systematically analyzes the relationship between geography and communication and shows how geographical appr...

Geographies of Developing Areas is a thought provoking and accessible introductory text, presenting a fresh view of the Global South that challenge...

The first book to focus exclusively on the subject, Geodiversity, Second Edition describes the interrelationships between geodiversity and biodiver...

Forestry Economics introduces students and practitioners to the economics of managing forests and forest enterprises. The book adopts the approach ...

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 has identified four priority areas for Disaster Risk Reduction: understanding disaster r...

Over the last 60 years, we have recognized increasingly that our world is connected, and the impacts of environmental catastrophes and economic cri...

Climate change, habitat loss, rising extinction rates - such problems call for more than just new policies and practices. They raise fundamental qu...

The field of Environmental Management (EM) involves a broad and evolving repertoire of practices. The field originated around 1970 in response to n...